Bag-holder



(No Model.) A. ROBINSON BAG HOLDER. I 7 No. 294,505. Patented-Mar. 4; 1884.

Witnesses. Q Invenforf N. FErERs. PMI Ulhngnphur. Washinglun. I16.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

ALEXANDER ROBINSON, OF BENICIA, ASSIGNOR TO BAKER & HAMILTON,

- i OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,505, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed November 5, 1883. (No model.)

1"0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ROBINSON, of Benicia, county of Solano, and State of California, have invented certain Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make a simple, durable, and cheap device for holding bags at the mouth of a spout while being filled. This will be more readily understood by refer ring to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation; Fig. 2, a plan showing the device ready to receive the bag, and Fig. 3 an elevation showing the bag in posi- .tion.

to bepointed a little downward, ready to receive the bag.

Fig. 3 shows the bag in position and locked fast by the pawl C, resting upon the boss G. The shaft B is turned by means of the pawl traveling up the inclined plane, as the sliding fork is pulled forward to hold and stretch the front of the bag; When in this position, the larger part of the contents of the bag is in ciently to prevent it sliding back by any jar, either in a mill or on a thrashing-machine.

To release the bag, all that is required is to shove the fork back with the hand, as in Fig. 1, and the bag drops from the hooks.

cure by Letters Patent, is

A bag-holder comprising suitable devices for its support, a sliding fork, E, shaft B, provided with books, and the lever or arm C, and theinclined plane D, substantially as set forth.

' ALEXANDER ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

' W. S. DUBo1s,

MATT. CLARKEN.

front of the guides F, springing the fork sufli- Having thus illustrated and described my invention, what I deem new, and desire to se- 

